Rendezvous

RENDEZVOUS WITH MADNESS FILM FESTIVAL

25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

NOVEMBER 3 – 11, 2017

R.D. Laing, the subject of this year’s opening movie, was notorious for challenging psychiatric orthodoxy. Indeed, although Laing himself disavowed the term, the Scottish born specialist in schizophrenia was considered something of a revolutionary. If this is a fitting subject for the opening of the twenty-fifth edition of the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival, it’s because, when it comes to understanding and treating mental disorders and promoting mental health, there is no progress without radical change. If there’s one thing this event has consistently sought and hopefully provided, it’s films that track the eruptions and shifts that are necessary to illuminating our understanding and experience of how the brain works. Or, in some cases, doesn’t.